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All panicking about the escape a killer (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

lethal

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'all panicking about the escape a killer' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'all panicking about the escape a killer' is the wordplay.
'panicking' indicates anagramming the letters.
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'the escape a killer' becomes 'eth' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'all' with letters rearranged gives 'lal'.
'lal' enclosing 'eth' is 'LETHAL'.

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(Other definitions for lethal that I've seen before include "Enough to cause death" , "Death-dealing" , "All the change can be deadly." , "describing a killer?" , "Killing" .)

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